Who Destroyed the Library of Alexandria?

A Ship Of Theseus Discussing the destruction of the Library of Alexandria is a bit like debating the Ship of Theseus thought experiment. Just as...

Who Destroyed the Library of Alexandria?

A Ship Of Theseus Discussing the destruction of the Library of Alexandria is a bit like debating the Ship of Theseus thought experiment. Just as...

Balthild: The Anglo-Saxon Queen of the Franks

Balthild, a future wife and mother of kings, emerged from obscure origins in the early 7th century. Also called Balthilde, Bathild and Baldhild, she...

Søren Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) "ust as no human body is perfect, so no self is perfect." From Soren Kierkegaard’s The Sickness unto Death (chapter C, section...

Hera Hiding During The Battle Of The Gods And Giants, Attributed To Govert Flinck (c. 1643) After Carel Fabritius (1622 – 1654)

Govert Flinck (1615-1660) is attributed with painting this darkly-colored copy of an earlier artwork by Carel Fabritius (1622-1654). Both the original and the copy...

Siegfried Kills Fafnir, By Arthur Rackham (c. 1867–1939)

This image, created by Arthur Rackham (c. 1867–1939), was produced for a 1911 translation of Richard Wager’s Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods....

Christine de Pizan

  Christine de Pizan (c. 1364-1430) "There always have been and there always will be women who are just as spotless as they are beautiful." From...

The Violent Friulan Rejection Of Arnefrit

Arnefrit was from a noble family that owed its rise and its fall to the influence of King Grimoald of the Lombards (r. 662-671)....

The Crash And Camel Stories Of The Colossus Of Rhodes

The Colossus of Rhodes, one of the so-called Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was a bronze and iron statue of the sun-god, Helios,...

5 Odd Ways 15th-Century People Believed They Could Detect A Witch

  The witch-fearing people of medieval Europe developed for themselves several methods that they thought would help them detect, and possibly track, witches living in...
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